Donie Collins Band Feature (1960
- 197?)

In 1969, Shaun O'Dowd was first featured as the lead vocalist with
the Donie Collins Showband when they released Get Down With It,
backed by I Can't Help Myself. Shaun would later go on to
bigger fame with his own band, Ding-A-Ling. At the end of 1970,
an advert in Spotlight announced the "New Big Band Sound of
the Donie Collins Orchestra and Singers." In November, 1970, a
few weeks later Sean O'Dowd announced he and guitarist Liam Foley
were leaving Donie's band by mutual agreement and were even talking
with Donie about managing the new band.